You can not prove that some gods do not exists because they are logically self-contradictory. A god may exist outside of certain logic systems or even created his own logic systems.
Otherwise the following would prove an almighty god can not exists: - An almighty god can make a rock so heavy that he himself can not lift it.
Or modified in the form of eve online folklore: - Chribba once made a veldspar astroid so big even he couldn't mine it, then he mined it in a single cycle.
Therefor you can not disprove God or any of the other gods, including the greek and the nordic gods, the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster.
one acronym: FPGA A set of gates of which you can change the connections on the fly.
Current FPGAs are large enough to implement quite large systems with many algorithms. There are even FPGA like devices that work in the analogue domain.
And to be honest, having started designing for an FPGA, it not that more difficult than software. In fact the simulation software for FPGAs includes debugging tools that puts software debugging to shame.
There have been issues with actual media files like *.png that caused a buffer overload in the image decoder and would allow execution of code embedded in the image itself.
However it is better to actually fix the buffer overflow instead of scanning files. I guess the only real use for virus scanners, if you and manufacturers keep your system up to date, is to not allow said file to be transported to an other computer that has not been updated.
That is what most linux and os x virus scanners mostly do, to make sure viruses are found before you send it to a vulnerable computer.
How about an athlete, is he allowed to play video games? If one does the standard weight/height ratio on an athlete. Seeing as many athletes are over 100 kg. I guess he needs to sit on the cough for couple of weeks, so his muscles becomes smaller.
I am not sure about the original series. But in the next generation and henceforth: - Cochrane used a fusion reactor to feed the warp coils with plasma. - The enterprise uses an Antimatter/Matter reactor, annihilating deuterium and anti-deuterium. It is fueled at a starbase, although in a pinch they can use the Bussard ramscoop to harvest deuterium from space, and they have a small particle accelerator on board to create anti-deuterium. - The enterprise uses fusion engines for when the antimatter matter reactor is offline and for its impulse engines (sub light speed). - The Romulans use a micro singularity which presumably is fed with matter at high pressure, the matter is converted into energy through hawking radiation. - The Cardasians use fusion reactors.
headache is mostly caused by the quality of production. Check the U23D movie before passing judgement. Here the film makers have done their best to make sure your depth focus does not change rapidly during cuts and cross fades. Also shallow depth of field is no problem in 3D as long as the primary subject(s) are in focus.
I've seen parts of U23D at the ibc theater a few years ago, it never strained my eyes or give me a headache. Even if Bono was uncomfortably close to me sometimes (you know what happens when ppl get physically really close to you, it felt like that, he was really a few decimeters away from me). It really did feel like you where walking there right on stage really close up and personal to the band members.
However I've seen a Hollywood animation where the depth changes so rapidly that it felt like they where ripping my eyes out of my sockets. The interest in 3D is so much right now, ibc was full of 3D production, post production, transmission and play-out equipment, that I hope that film makers will figure out how to use it properly. Because it is really able to add an emotional layer to a movie.
I was on ibc yesterday too. I think you can use the polarized screens as normal screens as well, with full resolution. The polarized screen only halves in resolution when viewing stereoscopic images.
In case anyone wonders the polarization changes with each line, combing the left and right images, which almost looks (if you view the stereo image without glasses) like a continues interlacing artifact. Both lines look the same brightness and color (and the display look just as bright and colorful as normal displays).
Wearing the glasses does not show noticeable difference in brightness or color.
The broadcast is probably done (last time I was at the international broadcasting conference) by adding a depth field to the standard 2D HD broadcast.
From what I understand, their TV creates 9 different stereoscopic views from the 2D+depth frames. Then using the old technology of vertical strip lenses they make those 9 views available at different viewing angles.
You don't need to wear any glasses to watch the TV. but there are view angles where it becomes a mess to watch (but that was a few years ago, so maybe they fixed it). Also like in the theater you need to keep your head vertical.
Your money is only guaranteed by the government/central bank up to a certain amount (was 20,000 euro per bank recently upgraded to 100,000 euro), as people found out the hard way a couple of years ago (before the current crisis) when a small bank collapsed and people lost most of their live savings.
In the current crisis there was something with ppl who where saving in an Icelandic bank that collapsed.
Like in eve online you should scatter your money around multiple banks, especially if you have more money than your guaranty. Because you are at a lot of risk when saving a lot of money at a bank; people buy stocks and bonds, because the stocks and bonds are linked to you personally and when the bank dies those stocks are still yours. Of course companies and governments can go bankrupt and even default on the bond too, but one should diversify here too.
I think there is a saying, something with: eggs and one basket.
You will need to calculate the risk that your money will be stolen and how often it will be stolen and how much, then calculate the interest you will receive back. Then you see which one is bigger.
Thing is, non smartphones in Europe have more features than the iPhone. Its just that the interface sucks on most of these phones. I am going to get the iPhone because I want a device with a good user interface (currently I don't use the mp3 playback on the my phone, mostly because it requires a dock connector on the headphone), I find that the new iPhone has finally a decent camera in it.
Although the user interface of the camera on my current phone (sony ericson) is the best, bar none: slide open, press the button on the side slightly to lock focus and lock light (I have my camera settings to semi-auto), aim, press button deeper, put it back in your pocket. This works without unlocking the phone or anything. It even has an actual xenon flash. On an iPhone getting the camera to take an actual picture takes much more time and effort.
Why doesn't the iPhone have flash, or even second camera (video phone), these are standard features in any phone these days.
3D high definition voxel video. That will probably eat a bit of bandwidth.
By that time the minimum resolution will be 2048 x 2048 x 2048 voxels 8 bytes per voxel for RGBA at 128 frames per second. Which adds up to 8,796,093,022,208 or 8TB/sec. maybe we can get 1:1000 compression ratio, so that will end up with 8GB/sec.
A couple of weeks ago I started to notice that quite a few websites and other things where really slow and took around 30 seconds to a minute to actually draw the page.
I couldn't figure out why, then because I was debugging something else I was using tcpdump on my computer, I searched for some information to help debug the problem and again got on a slow webpage. My tcpdump showed IPv6 DNS and HTTP packets being send which where not being replied.
You see I somehow forget to add my Apple base station to the adsl-router-firewall to let the IPv6 tunneling through. So my webbrowser was trying the IPv6 addresses for each piece of media on the page, failing, timing out and falling back to IPv4.
I think a good 5 % of the websites I was visiting had IPv6 enabled, granted I seem to go to websites for technical subjects and to asian websites for my micro helicopter hobby.
There are so many electronics in the house that are using more than a watt of power in standby that it can add up to a 100 euro per year for a single house hold. Not that much, but you could have used that 100 Euro for something fun.
And to be honest this whole 1 or 2 watts isn't needed for standby. My projector, a panasonic PT-EA1000, is one of the few pieces of equipment that only uses 80mW of power in standby. Other manufactures should think of doing this to their equipment.
For the persons who like to know: - You power your standby electronics straight from mains power, through a resistor and a voltage regulator. This works because the standby electronics is very low power. - The standby electronics controls a relay that switches the power supply for the rest of the equipment.
The longest human DNA molecule contains 220 million base pairs. Each base pair encodes 4 values (which in a binary system costs 2 bits). So the longest human DNA molecule contains a little over 52 MByte of information.
Because patent law not only disallows someone from distributing his own code, but also using his code and even creating his code.
This is because you can also invent/patent a machine to build gizmos. A competing manufacturer could make the same machine to also build those gizmos. Technically the competing manufacturer is not distributing the machine, because he is using it himself, but he would still not be allowed to use it under patent law.
It does, I have seen some 4K LCD panels (Super HI-Vision is 8K) at IBC (International Broadcasting Conference) which showed a down converted 8K video. It looks absolutely stunning.
I guess we will have to wait for 8K LCD panels to see how the full experience is on a 28"-30" set. Or get a 8K projection system. They used two projectors when I saw Super HI-Vision in 2005 to achieve 8K; one for green, the other for blue and red.
It does suffer somewhat from hyperrealism, where for people with less than perfect sight the image looks too perfect as it shows objects with much more detail then they can normally see; the distance of the screen is closer and the lens on the camera is sharper.
Exactly, he states in a christmas episode that he lies himself and he doesn't believe that one of his patient (mother) and her daughter never lies.
In fact we find out that the mother did lie. But the daughter didn't lie. In fact the daughter told her mother very clearly that she (the mother) will die of the illness (based on current information).
House was moved by this; because the daughter wasn't just telling the harsh truth, but she did so because she loved her mother. A Christmas miracle for House.
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You can not prove that some gods do not exists because they are logically self-contradictory.
A god may exist outside of certain logic systems or even created his own logic systems.
Otherwise the following would prove an almighty god can not exists:
- An almighty god can make a rock so heavy that he himself can not lift it.
Or modified in the form of eve online folklore:
- Chribba once made a veldspar astroid so big even he couldn't mine it, then he mined it in a single cycle.
Therefor you can not disprove God or any of the other gods, including the greek and the nordic gods, the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster.
one acronym: FPGA
A set of gates of which you can change the connections on the fly.
Current FPGAs are large enough to implement quite large systems with many algorithms. There are even FPGA like devices that work in the analogue domain.
And to be honest, having started designing for an FPGA, it not that more difficult than software. In fact the simulation software for FPGAs includes debugging tools that puts software debugging to shame.
There have been issues with actual media files like *.png that caused a buffer overload in the image decoder and would allow execution of code embedded in the image itself.
However it is better to actually fix the buffer overflow instead of scanning files. I guess the only real use for virus scanners, if you and manufacturers keep your system up to date, is to not allow said file to be transported to an other computer that has not been updated.
That is what most linux and os x virus scanners mostly do, to make sure viruses are found before you send it to a vulnerable computer.
How about an athlete, is he allowed to play video games?
If one does the standard weight/height ratio on an athlete. Seeing as many athletes are over 100 kg.
I guess he needs to sit on the cough for couple of weeks, so his muscles becomes smaller.
I am not sure about the original series. But in the next generation and henceforth:
- Cochrane used a fusion reactor to feed the warp coils with plasma.
- The enterprise uses an Antimatter/Matter reactor, annihilating deuterium and anti-deuterium. It is fueled at a starbase, although in a pinch they can use the Bussard ramscoop to harvest deuterium from space, and they have a small particle accelerator on board to create anti-deuterium.
- The enterprise uses fusion engines for when the antimatter matter reactor is offline and for its impulse engines (sub light speed).
- The Romulans use a micro singularity which presumably is fed with matter at high pressure, the matter is converted into energy through hawking radiation.
- The Cardasians use fusion reactors.
The year 2380?
The notation of a SI-prefix inside a number is used in electronics as a decimal separator. I guess it should also be a lower case letter 'k' as well.
I guess the notation was invented because dots tend to fade away on photocopies and a SI unit is less easy to overlook.
headache is mostly caused by the quality of production. Check the U23D movie before passing judgement. Here the film makers have done their best to make sure your depth focus does not change rapidly during cuts and cross fades. Also shallow depth of field is no problem in 3D as long as the primary subject(s) are in focus.
I've seen parts of U23D at the ibc theater a few years ago, it never strained my eyes or give me a headache. Even if Bono was uncomfortably close to me sometimes (you know what happens when ppl get physically really close to you, it felt like that, he was really a few decimeters away from me). It really did feel like you where walking there right on stage really close up and personal to the band members.
However I've seen a Hollywood animation where the depth changes so rapidly that it felt like they where ripping my eyes out of my sockets. The interest in 3D is so much right now, ibc was full of 3D production, post production, transmission and play-out equipment, that I hope that film makers will figure out how to use it properly. Because it is really able to add an emotional layer to a movie.
I was on ibc yesterday too. I think you can use the polarized screens as normal screens as well, with full resolution. The polarized screen only halves in resolution when viewing stereoscopic images.
In case anyone wonders the polarization changes with each line, combing the left and right images, which almost looks (if you view the stereo image without glasses) like a continues interlacing artifact. Both lines look the same brightness and color (and the display look just as bright and colorful as normal displays).
Wearing the glasses does not show noticeable difference in brightness or color.
Here is one of the videos from the lab experiment.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/401413/ball_lightning_created_in_a_laboratory_very_cool_stuff
This one seems to be inside a domestic oven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMnsdqHwew&feature=related
Both of these could be fake of course.
Except for the non red book compliant compact disks.
Seems they closed shop according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D-plus-depth
philips' 3D televisions (I think they are called WOW tv or something), is probably compatible with the broadcast.
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/shared/assets/3dsolutions/downloads/42Inch3dDisplayUserManual.pdf
The broadcast is probably done (last time I was at the international broadcasting conference) by adding a depth field to the standard 2D HD broadcast.
From what I understand, their TV creates 9 different stereoscopic views from the 2D+depth frames. Then using the old technology of vertical strip lenses they make those 9 views available at different viewing angles.
You don't need to wear any glasses to watch the TV. but there are view angles where it becomes a mess to watch (but that was a few years ago, so maybe they fixed it). Also like in the theater you need to keep your head vertical.
Your money is only guaranteed by the government/central bank up to a certain amount (was 20,000 euro per bank recently upgraded to 100,000 euro), as people found out the hard way a couple of years ago (before the current crisis) when a small bank collapsed and people lost most of their live savings.
In the current crisis there was something with ppl who where saving in an Icelandic bank that collapsed.
Like in eve online you should scatter your money around multiple banks, especially if you have more money than your guaranty. Because you are at a lot of risk when saving a lot of money at a bank; people buy stocks and bonds, because the stocks and bonds are linked to you personally and when the bank dies those stocks are still yours. Of course companies and governments can go bankrupt and even default on the bond too, but one should diversify here too.
I think there is a saying, something with: eggs and one basket.
Because without pictures, it didn't happen:
http://www.intermediair.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1002053 (20,000 guarantee)
http://www.geldenrecht.nl/sparen/2501134/Bank_failliet_spaargeld_en_hypotheek_verrekend.html (40,000 guarantee)
http://www.dnb.nl/over-dnb/veelgestelde-vragen/vragen-over-banken/auto40295.jsp (now 100,000 guarantee)
The same can be said for meatspace banks.
You will need to calculate the risk that your money will be stolen and how often it will be stolen and how much, then calculate the interest you will receive back. Then you see which one is bigger.
You do know the officially "normal viewing distance" means 1.2 to 1.4 times the width of the screen, right?
Thing is, non smartphones in Europe have more features than the iPhone. Its just that the interface sucks on most of these phones.
I am going to get the iPhone because I want a device with a good user interface (currently I don't use the mp3 playback on the my phone, mostly because it requires a dock connector on the headphone), I find that the new iPhone has finally a decent camera in it.
Although the user interface of the camera on my current phone (sony ericson) is the best, bar none: slide open, press the button on the side slightly to lock focus and lock light (I have my camera settings to semi-auto), aim, press button deeper, put it back in your pocket. This works without unlocking the phone or anything. It even has an actual xenon flash. On an iPhone getting the camera to take an actual picture takes much more time and effort.
Why doesn't the iPhone have flash, or even second camera (video phone), these are standard features in any phone these days.
Robin Reliant makes for a great space shuttle though. Try to find the top gear episode.
3D high definition voxel video.
That will probably eat a bit of bandwidth.
By that time the minimum resolution will be 2048 x 2048 x 2048 voxels 8 bytes per voxel for RGBA at 128 frames per second. Which adds up to 8,796,093,022,208 or 8TB/sec. maybe we can get 1:1000 compression ratio, so that will end up with 8GB/sec.
Still more than you think.
A couple of weeks ago I started to notice that quite a few websites and other things where really slow and took around 30 seconds to a minute to actually draw the page.
I couldn't figure out why, then because I was debugging something else I was using tcpdump on my computer, I searched for some information to help debug the problem and again got on a slow webpage. My tcpdump showed IPv6 DNS and HTTP packets being send which where not being replied.
You see I somehow forget to add my Apple base station to the adsl-router-firewall to let the IPv6 tunneling through. So my webbrowser was trying the IPv6 addresses for each piece of media on the page, failing, timing out and falling back to IPv4.
I think a good 5 % of the websites I was visiting had IPv6 enabled, granted I seem to go to websites for technical subjects and to asian websites for my micro helicopter hobby.
There are so many electronics in the house that are using more than a watt of power in standby that it can add up to a 100 euro per year for a single house hold. Not that much, but you could have used that 100 Euro for something fun.
And to be honest this whole 1 or 2 watts isn't needed for standby. My projector, a panasonic PT-EA1000, is one of the few pieces of equipment that only uses 80mW of power in standby. Other manufactures should think of doing this to their equipment.
For the persons who like to know:
- You power your standby electronics straight from mains power, through a resistor and a voltage regulator. This works because the standby electronics is very low power.
- The standby electronics controls a relay that switches the power supply for the rest of the equipment.
According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
The longest human DNA molecule contains 220 million base pairs. Each base pair encodes 4 values (which in a binary system costs 2 bits).
So the longest human DNA molecule contains a little over 52 MByte of information.
Because patent law not only disallows someone from distributing his own code, but also using his code and even creating his code.
This is because you can also invent/patent a machine to build gizmos. A competing manufacturer could make the same machine to also build those gizmos. Technically the competing manufacturer is not distributing the machine, because he is using it himself, but he would still not be allowed to use it under patent law.
At least that is what I understand from it.
It does, I have seen some 4K LCD panels (Super HI-Vision is 8K) at IBC (International Broadcasting Conference) which showed a down converted 8K video. It looks absolutely stunning.
I guess we will have to wait for 8K LCD panels to see how the full experience is on a 28"-30" set. Or get a 8K projection system. They used two projectors when I saw Super HI-Vision in 2005 to achieve 8K; one for green, the other for blue and red.
It does suffer somewhat from hyperrealism, where for people with less than perfect sight the image looks too perfect as it shows objects with much more detail then they can normally see; the distance of the screen is closer and the lens on the camera is sharper.
Ever heard of "Super HI-Vision" or "Ultra High Definition Video"?
Japan hopes to start broadcasting on this standard at the beginning of 2015.
Its resolution is 7680 x 4320 @ 60p with 22.2 channels of audio. That is a lot of data, after compression it causes around 700 Mbit/s of traffic.
So this is why one needs 1Gbit/s fiber at the home, it will take some time before a lot of people would have these kind of connections as well.
BTW, the BBC is also interested in "Super HI-Vision", I wonder how long it will take to get into Europa.
For anyone that says that they eye is unable to see this resolution, you clearly haven't seen "Super HI-Vision" in real life.
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Exactly, he states in a christmas episode that he lies himself and he doesn't believe that one of his patient (mother) and her daughter never lies.
In fact we find out that the mother did lie. But the daughter didn't lie. In fact the daughter told her mother very clearly that she (the mother) will die of the illness (based on current information).
House was moved by this; because the daughter wasn't just telling the harsh truth, but she did so because she loved her mother. A Christmas miracle for House.